"It's Five O'Clock" | |
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Single by Aphrodite's Child | |
from the album It's Five O'clock | |
Released | 1969 (promo), 1970 |
Label | Mercury |
Composer(s) | Evangelos Papathanassiou |
Lyricist(s) | Richard Francis |
"It's Five O'clock" is a song by the Greek band Aphrodite's Child from their 1969 studio album It's Five O'Clock . It was also released as a single, in February 1970, on Mercury Records.
The song was written by Evangelos Papathanassiou and Richard Julian Francis. [1] The song reached no. 6 in Switzerland and no. 11 in the Netherlands. [1] Italian singer Milva in 1981 released a German-language version titled "Kennst du das auch?" and a French-language version titled "Le drapeau de l'humanité".
A new studio version by ex-Aphrodite's Child vocalist Demis Roussos was included on his 1987 album The Demis Roussos Story on the label BR Music . The recording was also released as a single from that album (in 1987 on BR Music). [2]
7-inch single Mercury 6033 001 (1969, Greece)
7-inch single Mercury 132 508 MCF (1970, Germany, Netherlands, France, Belgium)
7-inch single Polydor 56791 (1970, UK)
7-inch single Mercury 132 508 MCY (1970, Italy)
7-inch single Mercury 51 32 508 (1970, Spain)
7-inch single RTB S 53592 MER (1972, Yugoslavia)
7-inch EP Mercury 26 017 MCE (1970, Portugal)
7-inch single Philips 6060 320 (1982, Belgium)
Chart (1970) | Peak position |
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Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia) [3] | 1 |
Italy (FIMI) [4] | 1 |
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) [5] | 6 |
Netherlands (Single Top 100) [6] | 11 |
France (SNEP) [7] | 1 |
Spain (PROMUSICAE) [8] | 22 |
Chart (2015) | Peak position |
France (SNEP) [7] | 177 |
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